Whether you’re down for a more poignant single-player experience or you’re looking to spend an afternoon being terrorised by tweens hopped up on Redbull as they mercilessly hunt you down in the multiplayer section, there’s no denying that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare looks like a visual beast in action.
That silky-smooth 60fps action has been a tradition for the series with every iteration, a hallmark of action alongside its numerous explosions and all manner of special effects occurring at any given time inside of the game. That visual oomph comes with a price though, and for Modern Warfare there’s going to be a tax of note on your digital real estate.
Activision recently released the official minimum and recommended requirements for the game and while the hardware needed is far from unexpected, it’s the storage required for Modern Warfare that’ll throw a little shock and awe at your face: 175 entire gigabytes of space will be needed. While I’m presuming that 174 of those gigs are being reserved for Captain Price’s magnificent facial hair, the size alone easily puts the game in the upper echelon of storage requirements.
Red Dead Redemption 2 asks for 150GB of space, while Gears 5’s 80GB requirement seems paltry in comparison now. Here’s the full spec list then, straight from the battlefield:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PC minimum requirements
- OS: WIndows 7 (Service Pack 1)/10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 4340/AMD FX-6300
- Memory: 8GB
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/ AMD Radeon HD 7950
- HDD Space: 175GB
- Sound Card: DirectX 12.0 compatible
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PC recommended requirements
- OS: Windows 10 (latest update)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 2500k/AMD Ryzen R5 1600X
- RAM: 12GB
- Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660/AMD Radeon R9 390/AMD Radeon RX 580
- Sound Card: DirectX 12.0 compatible
You’ve got until October 25 to make some space. My suggestion? Clearing out junk folders, deleting photos and grabbing a few flash drives to back stuff up on. Especially that uh…sensitive folder labelled “There’s definitely no porn inside here”.
Last Updated: October 10, 2019
Yozzie
October 10, 2019 at 10:59
HDD Space: 175GB
O.o
Llama In The Rift
October 10, 2019 at 11:08
Good Lord…Gonna need an SSD for my SSD just for Red Dead and COD
HairyEwok
October 10, 2019 at 11:08
Excuse me what? 175GB of space needed. Get outta here. But then again, RDR2 needs 150GB of space. Have games always been this big and we just never realised it?
Cathal
October 10, 2019 at 11:18
Pffft, rookie mistake. It’s called the “School Assignments” folder.
G8crasha
October 10, 2019 at 12:20
What if you are not in school, but you still want to keep it a secret from your significant other? What do you call it then?!?!?
HairyEwok
October 10, 2019 at 12:29
Man-cave ideas. DIY projects. Whatsapp NSFW meme’s.
Cathal
October 10, 2019 at 12:29
Replace with “University” or “Work” as applicable 😛 fill with some extra actual work documents just to bluff if it’s ever checked.
Original Heretic
October 10, 2019 at 11:18
Wow that’s huge.
That’s what-
Viper_ZA
October 10, 2019 at 13:41
Always knew having 4 drives would benefit me greatly. My PC is ready, looking forward to this <3
Hammersteyn
October 10, 2019 at 11:17
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G8crasha
October 10, 2019 at 12:20
Although I have 1TB SSD, I have so many games installed as a result of XGP, Uplay+ and Origin Access Premier, I am royally screwed. Now I have to comb through my games and decide what I will have to put to the side to enjoy CoD. I haven’t played a CoD in a couple of years, so it will be interesting to return to the battlefield.